Door-securing means



Sept. 9 1924. 1,507,593

A. GALLOWAY DOOR SECURING MEANS I Filed Sent. 21, 1.922

INVENTOR' A 'TTORNE Patented Sept. 9, 1924.

Assamese- Getawa 0F ar t a reaezseevma aser Applieatirm filed September.21,. 19221.. Serial ldfo. 589,558. 7

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Be it known that I, ALEXANDER GALm-;

WAY, a citizen otthe United States, resist-- ing at Kansas. City, thecounty of Jackson and State; of Missouri, have invented. certain new anduseful. Improvements inv Do.or--

seamin Means; and. Tide declare. following; to be a full,clean-andiexact descrip= tion "of the invention, such'as. willenableothers skilled in the art to whichit: apper tai-ns to makeand. usethe same, reference: being had to the accompanying drawings. and to.'the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification. 4 l i This invention relates to car door: sealing meansand particularly to a cleat and sealingmeans for. the. slidingside doorsof. bot: cars. l

The primary objectis to provide. an efli cient, easily operated sealingmeans which can be conveniently attached,.making a substantial means ofkeeping the door closed to prevent access to the car without breakingthe seal.

The" novel construction of the invention will be specifically describedhereinafter, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which1 Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the sealing means applied.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the sealing means released.

Fig. 3 is a top edge view of the hasp link and its staple.

Fig. 4 is a detail, perspective view of the hinged end of the cleat.

Referring now to the drawings by numerals of reference: I

1 designates a car of appropriate construction to which is hung theusual side door 2. F 'astened to the car preferably to one of the sidesills is a bracket and guide comprising a bar 3 having a laterallyprojecting web 4.- at its upper edge near one end, the respective sideedges of the web being provided with depending flanges 5 and 6 which arein spaced relation to receive the turned-over edge or barrel-shapedportion 7 of the cleat 8 between them. The portion 7 constitutes a hingemember through which a bolt 9 may pass, the bolt also passing throughthe flanges 5 and 6, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2,

The flange 6 extends below the flange 5 and; innconjunction with thenarrowv portionof the bar 3' constitutes the meansby which the guide andbracket can be fastened to the. ear. Suitable fastening devices 10 areused for this purpose. I 1

The flange 5 has an upstanding extension 11. which co-operates -with.'the web} 4 to provide a guide? for the lower edge of the 'doo ir fsothatv the lower edge of-;. the door: 1 will be; held relatively close tothens-izde of the; can, the upper edge of the, door:

being. held iflplace by the usual'hanger'sf v The. cleat, is shown. asconsisting of a substantially triangular'wall'8", having a lateralvbottom flange 12 and a. lateral vertical flange: 13, the latterconstituting a stopagainst which the end of the door may abutwhen thecleat is in door-holding position. The bottom flange 12 extends beyondthe end of the triangular portion and merges into the barrel-shaped.portion 7, which constitutes the hinge member by means ofwhichthe'cleatis hung-on the bolt 9.

Carried by the car door is a staple hav- The cleat carries. a lug Mwhich is pro} vidfed with. a link-receiving'groove '15. and;

ing a fiat portion 20 adaptedto be secured 4 to the door bythe fasteningdevice 21 and having an end looped over as at 22 and extending through,the door where its threaded end 23 may be fastened by a nut 24. Thelooped-over portion 22 of the staple receives a link 25, which consistsof two elongated side bars 26 and 27 connected at their respective endsby cross bars 28 and 29. The linkis long enough to swing against thecleat and'have its bar ,26 received in the groove 15.

hen the cleat is 'inthe position shown in Fig. 2, the car door can beswung back and forth in the usual way. When it is desired to fasten thedoor, the cleat will be swung up into the position shown in Fig. 1.sothat its edge will be received in the space formed by the anglecomprising the plate'8 and the flange 13, the link will vbe swung overto a position to cause its-bar 26 to lie in the groove 15, then the camwill be swung down against the link to hold it in engagement with thelug, that is, the lug and cam constitute two link-receiving jaws to holdthe link in the position shown in The act of swinging the cam to- Fig. 1. the position to hold the link in place will automatically causethe two eyes or loops l6 and 17 to register. Then a sealed ribbon 30 maybe passed through the loops or eyes 16 and 17 and the ends thereoffastened by a seal 31. Of course, it is to be understood that any sealmay be substituted for the seal shown. It will also be apparent thatwhen the parts are in the po sition shown in Fig. 1 and the two eyes 16and 17 are connected by any appropriate seal, the door cannot be openedwithoutbreaking the seal, the penalty for which is obviously severe.

When it is desired to open the door, an authorized person can break theseal, throw the cam out of link-engaging position, and by swinging thelink away from the cleat, the cleat can drop to the position shown inFig. 2, whereupon the door may be opened.

It will, therefore, be apparent that the fastening means is simple inconstruction, thatit can be easily applied to any exist-. ing type ofcar, and that it will efliciently operate when in place.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination with a box car having a sliding side door for closinga side opening therein, of a bracket having an upwardly extending guideportion for the door, a flanged cleat pivoted to the bracket andoverlapping the bottom and vertical edge of the door at one corner and afastening device carried by the door engaging a part of the cleat.

2. In combination with a box car having a sliding side door for closinga side opening therein, of a bracket having an upwardly extending guideportion for the door, a flanged cleat pivoted to the bracket andoverlapping the bottom and vertical edge of the door at one corner and afastening device carried by the door engaging a part of the cleat, saidfasteningdevice comprising a linkpivoted to the door and movable intoand out of parallelism with the cleat.

3. In combination with a side door-box car, of a swinging cleat carried"by the car, the swinging cleat having a bottom door engaging fiange andasidedoor engaging flange, the swinging cleat having an upward swingingmovement to engage the bottom of the door and thevertical outer edge andhaving downwardly swinging movement out of functional position and afastening device carried by the door and engaging the cleat.

4:. In combination with a box car having a sliding door for closing aside opening therein, of a bracket below the lower edge of the'door, theouterverticaledge of the door being movable beyond the bracket and aright angular swinging cleat pivoted to the bracket and having flangesto engageqthe bottom edge and vertical outer edge of the door and meanson the door for engaging the cleat.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ALEXANDER GALLOWAY,

